The purpose of NASA's New Millenium program is to speed up space exploration through the development of highly advanced technology.The program is unique in that it tests its advanced technologies in space flight. Though many space-related technologies can be tested sufficiently in laboratories on Earth, the technologies and concepts NMP selects, such as solar electric (ion) propulsion or spacecraft flying in formation, present a fairly high risk to missions that will use them for the first time.
TiNi Pinpullers used to deploy the Magnetometer and S-Band Booms.
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